Senior Backend Engineer

About Payoneer

Founded in 2005, Payoneer is the global financial platform that removes friction from doing business across borders, with a mission to connect the world’s underserved businesses to a rising global economy. We’re a community with over 2,500 colleagues all over the world, working to serve customers, and partners in over 190 countries and territories.

By taking the complexity out of the financial workflows-including everything from global payments and compliance to multi-currency and workforce management, to providing working capital and business intelligence-we give businesses the tools they need to work efficiently worldwide and grow with confidence.

Location: Gurugram - India 

Full-time

What You’ll Be Spending Your Time On:

• Take a leadership role in achieving team goals, contributing to the overall design, architecture, development, quality, and production deployment of the team's systems
• Design and implement robust, scalable, and maintainable backend solutions for complex scenarios, ensuring high-quality results that may be consumed by other teams. 
• Collaborate effectively within your team and with cross-functional partners, such as Product, Design/UX, DevOps, and other R&D teams, representing your team as needed. 
• Maintain and improve the team's engineering practices, suggesting and implementing technology, patterns, or process enhancements. 
• Proactively identify areas of improvement in team systems, processes, and scalability. 
• Lead by example in code quality, contributing significantly to code reviews and acting as a focal point for engineering excellence questions. 
• Help monitor production systems, investigate potential issues, and lead efforts to resolve critical production challenges while maintaining a customer-centric approach. 

Have You Done This Kind of Stuff:

• 6 - 10 years in backend software engineering roles, with demonstrated ability to navigate technical trade-offs and ambiguity effectively. 
• Strong proficiency in C#, Java, Nodejs or any similar object-oriented languages.
• Hands-on experience in SQL Server and database management 
• Experience with message queues or streaming platforms (e.g., RabbitMQ, SQS, Kafka). 
• Experience in writing unit test and strong knowledge of design principles, data structures and algorithms. 
• Experience with microservices architecture. 
• Experience in designing new functionality for existing complex components while maintaining scalability and performance. 
• Ability to collaborate effectively and communicate technical concepts to diverse stakeholders. 
• BSc/BE/B.Tech in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent degree 

Not a Must, but a Great Advantage:

• Practical experience with Agile development methodologies. 
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud). 
• Practical knowledge of non-relational databases (eg. MongoDB) 
• Experience in mentoring new hires and interns, fostering a culture of collaboration and best practices.

The Payoneer Ways of Working  

Act as our customer’s partner on the inside

Learning what they need and creating what will help them go further. 

Do it. Own it.

Being fearlessly accountable in everything we do. 

Continuously improve

Always striving for a higher standard than our last. 

Build each other up  

Helping each other grow, as professionals and people. 

If this sounds like a business, a community, and a mission you want to be part of, apply today.

We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workplace. Payoneer is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment no matter your race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you require reasonable accommodation at any stage of the hiring process, please speak to the recruiter managing the role for any adjustments. Decisions about requests for reasonable accommodation are made on a case-by-case basis.